Audience reviews
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exerant
This is a review for watching the original Japanese raw with no translations. Gakkou no Kaidan is a solid horror show for Japanese children with a Youkai of the Week format similar to Scooby-Doo but a lot more serious. There are real stakes at play here and the horror at times is the sort of thing you would see in an actual horror movie.
Some familiarity with the subject matter can make most episodes easier to follow, as the show assumes prerequisite knowledge of youkai and Japanese urban legends that the average schoolkid would have. Many of the things shown are what actual Japanese children talk about and scare each other with, and the rest are very similar to things that are present in urban legend in different areas of Japan. Fortunately I had a decent understanding already due to con…
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When you watch the subbed version you never stop wanting to beat the dub team to death. The claims that the original is some kind of unsalvagable dogshit are grossly exaggerated; it's a very cute, earnest and sweet anime at its best and just alright at its weakest episodes.
Is it a revolutionary misunderstood gem that would save weebkind as we know it if it was just given a chance? No, probably not. But being written off entirely as The Room of Anime and having an abridged series touted as the ideal way of experiencing it strikes me as profoundly silly.
The dub which everyone knows this show best for is chock full of groan worthy pop culture reference humor that everyone has suddenly decided to have always hated in the 2020s, and like, one good joke an episode. Other than that it just fe…
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People who watch the "Ghost Stories Dub Funny Moments" compilations on YouTube probably think this show is a laugh a minute.
It is not. There's a reason people are only able to quote the same five jokes. That's literally all there is to it.
Each 20 minute episode maybe has two funny jokes, TOPS.
I don't get offended easily, especially given that this was made in the early 2000s but dear lord, these jokes just don't fly at all, even by edgelord standards.
There's also the social context of Americans severely bastardizing the works of Japanese creators but that's a topic for another day. As someone who lives in Asia, I would hate it if some white millennials replaced by writing with jokes about Carrie Underwood, Jerry Maguire, and MTV references.
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It will take thousands of years for an anime to be like this one. What makes this anime enjoyable is that it does not care what you think of it. They'll say whatever they want even if the script is controversial.
I'll give you some examples
"Sorry all you little yellow people look alike to me, and African Americans"
"You can do the broadcasting so I can get my brains banged out by Mr. Sakata..."
"Mr. Sakata's banging the living fuck out of Ms. Matsushima!"
"Sorry, but this number is not in service, hey! Maybe if they paid their fucking phone bill you could call again!"
"Get yo crackhead ass into some rehab, I don't got time for this bullshit!"
"Watch out! Stupid Jew!"
This is every single episode
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listen. I'm throwing out my usual review style for something much more casual for this show. THE SUB SUCKS DON'T WATCH IT.
But that dub. It has been touched by God. It became a comedy series. Quite possibly the greatest comedy series to have ever been invented. every bit of the show, any moment of emotion, became comedy. Every second of this show is comedic gold. The characters are beautifully voice acted comedians. Every character reacted unrealistically in the most hilarious way possible, without being childish. Screw the story it don't matter. The art style, throw it in the trash. Comedy fans rejoice. watch it. love it. then give this show a 10/10.
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Important note: This should come as no surprise, but I watched and will be reviewing the famous English dub of this anime. 'Cuz who gives a damn about the sub? Certainly not the Japanese licensors, which is why they allowed what happened to happen in the first place. Lol.
So what I could gather was the actual plot of Ghost Stories is that it's basically about a girl, along with her brother and friends, finding out their ex-homosexual mother was the ex-principal at their school's old building, and that she did a lot of work with ghosts before she died. In her work, she learned a lot about what the ghosts were, and how to put them away so that they would stop being problems for the humans who attend the school. And then after the old building gets abandoned, ghosts haunt it, and the main c…
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(WATCH THIS ANIME DUBBED)This anime is a must-watch definitely a cult classic anime, with the best dialogue in anime. With this anime is recommended to watch dub some episodes were very good and the anime is well-paced. Do not binge this anime and it is best enjoyed with friends. This anime is too complicated and is straight forward which makes it watchable. I can probably rewatch this anime by far favorite character is that cat. This is an anime you at least have to see once and is really well written.
If you do not laugh at least once then you have NO SOUL
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Watch this anime in DUB and its will become one of the funniest things you will EVER come across. This has a very predictable story and the mystery is nothing special you can probably guess the ending of it by watching the first episode but in the official dub it is freaking hilarious just for comedy alone I'm giving it a full score but as a whole show its great mainly because of the hilarious comedy.
Every single episode manages to make me burst in laughter the dub voice actors would have had a blast making this I am assure of!
The characters in the show are also fairly generic and nothing that you would love or cherish forever but still in the dub version you start to like em, maybe even love them, because they make you laugh like a damn psycho.
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Story: 8
Art: 6
Sound: 7
Characters: 7
Enjoyment: 8
Overall: 8
This is a review of a sub. The hate that the Sub gets is not justified in the slightest. I've seen some dreadful bad animes and the people pretending that this is one of them are lying to themselves and others.
This show specifically the first few episodes in particular have a very slow and mediocre start i'll admit that but a lot of animes do especially those around this era. The show is about a group of friends who go around getting caught up in a lot of serious paranormal situations usually involving ghosts or demons (mostly ghosts) and how to put the ghost or demon to sleep. I don't plan on making this a super in depth review because I feel like that would bring out some spoilers but please don't disregard the sub because…
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Overview:
Ghost Stories is the amazing tale of a failed anime that became a cult classic through the absurd dubbing of the now defunct ADV films. The original is quite forgettable and not worth your time, but the infamous dub is DEFINITELY worth watching.
Background:
So who the hell was ADV? Back in the 1990s and early 2000s, the Texas dub studio ADV was the main rival of Funimation. Due to a series of terrible business decisions and an industry bubble burst, they went bankrupt and their best talent was poached by their surviving rival. They are basically the WCW to Funimation's WWE or the Sega to Funimation's Nintendo. ADV was best known for licensing, distributing, and dubbing Evangelion, Full Metal Panic, Elfen Lied, Robotech, and Welcome to the NHK. Unfortunately they also dubbed a…
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The thing about this anime is that it is actually REALLY really bad. It bombed in Japan and it is easy to see why, the time this was released, there were so many good anime out that blew it out of the water and this anime doesn't do anything special. It tries to be Scooby Doo and also the cliche's and bland characters really hurts this show.
However......
Aniplex was handed the English dub of the show, knowing it was a failure in Japan and probably would be a failure here, it SEEMS they didn't take the dub too seriously. So what do we get? The best dub that has ever been done ever.
Let me try to explain; the show has so many logical fallacies and strange lip flaps, the voice actors decided to add really adult and funny jokes, often breaking the forth wall and mocking the show itself. It…
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“Scooby-Dooby-Doo”
“Where are you?”
“We got some work to do now”
“Scooby-Dooby-Doo”
“Where are you?” “We need some help from you now!”
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Ho-ly ZEUS, man! As I was shimmering through my anime collection on what to review next and this is what I picked at random.
At first, I did wonder and ask myself why did I put this anime at the far dark corner shelf of my collection. When I pulled the DVD out, the room I was in gotten cold. -er.
You must think I am joking. Well no, I am dead serious. The room went very cold when I picked this up. Could be the changing season but who knows.
Anyway, I watched or re-watched the whole thing, now I remembered why I put this anime on the far dark side corner of my…
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I don't know how this fell into my pilots watchlist, but I'm so happy it did. I can't believe there haven't been more animes dubbed quite like this one. This is one of those shows you need to watch the English dub of, I'll explain in a sec why.
Gakkou no Kaidan (Ghost Stories) is a pretty tame, predictable show about kids in school that accidentally release a bunch of ghosts and have to put them all back to sleep. Yeah, I know, it doesn't sound that memorable, but it's actually one of the best comedies I've seen in years and by far the most memorable.
I checked out the first episode, on the English dub because I'm lazy, and the voice acting completely threw me. The voice actors that worked on the dub had nearly complete creative freedom for their lines, to the point where the actual plot…
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Going into this series, anyone should know that the dub and the sub of this show are drastically different. The sub is probably more serious, and the dub is complete crack. So of course, I watched the dub version.
Ive done my fair share of watching serious animes. But once in a while its nice to sit back and relax with something light. Trust me, if you just want to laugh for half an hour, then Ghost Stories is what you want.
Story
Story? what story? This show has the plot of an abrigged series you'd find on youtube.
To me there was a certain formula to watching this show. Its definitely not a series someone should marathon. Nope, it should be enjoyed an episode or two at a time. Anymore and you'll find yourself sick of the studpidity.
Characters
The characters were the best part! Althou…
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Gakkou no Kaidan is a very hilarious anime. I had the pleasure of watching it dubbed and the comedy is in it is excellent, for me it is the best part, and what made this anime such a pleasure to watch. It is full of pop culture references and one liners, making nods to every thing from politics to celebrities.
As far as story goes, it doesn't change past, the kids encounter a ghost, and fight it off, but even with its static story, it remains entertaining and never becomes dull.
The character development also remains static, none of the characters really venture past the stereotypes that were created for them, however they are still compelling nonetheless.
I recommend it to anyone who enjoys black comedy mixed with supernatural and mild horror.
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This is, without a doubt, the funniest anime dub I have ever watched. If you have anything remotely resembling a sense of humor, I highly recommend that you watch it.
The reason the ADV dub is so funny is because ADV took the original script and essentially tore it up, giving the VAs carte blanche to say whatever they wanted as long as it matched the lip flaps. As a result, Ghost Stories went from an almost unwatchable show to one of the funniest dubs in existence.
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LOL! I gave this anime a perfect 10 all the way through because I know it would would just tick off the anime purist. Mind you, I am giving it a perfect 10 because of the ENGLISH DUB!
What can I say about this anime that hasn't been said better here except to add to the opinion that if you have a sense of humor you WILL enjoy this anime, this dub is by the far the funniest thing I have seen in a long time. Let's just be honest, the show in Japanese sucks, plain and simple, there is just no getting around that. So what does this Dub company do? They saw the potential for something hiliarious and had the courage to make it a go. Thus we have this epically funny anime that will keep you busting a gut the whole way through. These kids are awesome!Everything about it is awesome. If you're havi…
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First off let me say that I am a fan of Ghost Hunt which is in many ways very similar to Ghost Stories. However after having seen both series I have to say that Ghost Hunt is clearly the better of the two. Having said that Ghost Stories is a slightly underrated series that probably does deserve a bit more recognition.
Story:
Unlike Ghost Hunt, Ghost Stories is completely episodic and all but the first and last episodes can be watched in any order and still work. There is not anything really wrong with the story but it is predictable and prone to cliche use. There are hardly any twists and near the end it almost seemed like the writers were running out of ideas. However the stories are fairly enjoyable and some of them are genuinely creepy (I personally liked the Piano ghost episode). All…
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Ghost Stories, oddly enough, is MUCH better in the English dub version than the original Japanese version, and it still isn't that great. The English dub tries to take an anime that takes itself way too seriously and make it funny, but even then, doesn't produce much more than a smirk from the audience. However, the Japanese version is unbearably serious and is practically impossible to watch.
The series is made up of short stories ((one per episode)) about ghosts, goblins and related demons. The main characters always get themselves involved and attempt to figure out these poorly written "mysteries" in the usual, cliche fashion.
The animation is average, with so-so character designs you've seen before and environments that bring nothing new to the table. The ending is also unspectacular…
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What I've edited on the wikipedia article on a few occasions was the reason ADV didn't do a dub that directly translated the original version, I've sited sources and still it was taken down for some reason. It was the fact that they did this that made so many people try to bury the series before it was released. Hate for ADV came left and right if you mentioned "Ghost Stories" or "Gakko no Kaiden" (School Ghost Stories), This was the dub that no hardcore anime fan wanted to see succeed. While some threw hateful comments, others were just plain confused. Why would ADV, after so many years of being a group of anime purists (when the company was first founded there was no intention of doing any dubs) and a company that helped give the dubs crowd in the classic "Dubs vs Subs" war validity, sud…
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